LOL, i've never seen this before, i just might buy one lol

[Andy Segal]

While I'm on the topic of funny stories about gloves, here is another one. You know how everyone carries two or three shafts, just in case one breaks. Well, I found out the hard way that you should carry two gloves, just in case.

I was in Kiev, Ukraine for the 2003 World Artistic Pool Championships and Steve Lillis (WPA Chairman and tournament director) gave me a bottle of carbonated water before one of my matches. Well, I opened it while I was wearing my glove and bam!!! One wet table, one wet shot program, one wet cue stick, one wet pair of tuxedo pants, and one wet glove.

Now I carry six shafts for my shooting cue, three for my jump cue, three for my masse cue, and two gloves!!! Actually, a friend of mine just gave me a third glove so now I have three.

Andy

 

[Pelican]

Kyle,

Luckily I had my softball gear in my car so I went out and got my batting glove and wore that on my grip hand for the rest of the tournament. I had a shooting glove on my left hand as well. It was pretty funny but it worked.

Andy

Hey Andy, Sometime wet a finger and hold it up, slip on your batters glove, and then point toward the pocket like it's the right field fence

 

[TwizteD]

 

[azhousepro]

Speaking of gloves, I didn't see this but I heard it from a local player.

Years ago, Corey Deuel and Troy Frank made a trip across the country looking for action and made their way into Arizona.

The story is that Corey was wearing a regular pool glove, but was wearing it on the wrong hand. Did this while he was asking people if they wanted to gamble. I know he took his fair share of money out of Arizona on that trip.

Mike

 

[9balldiva]

Speaking of gloves, I didn't see this but I heard it from a local player.

Years ago, Corey Deuel and Troy Frank made a trip across the country looking for action and made their way into Arizona.

The story is that Corey was wearing a regular pool glove, but was wearing it on the wrong hand. Did this while he was asking people if they wanted to gamble. I know he took his fair share of money out of Arizona on that trip.

Mike

How can you wear those three finger gloves on the wrong hand. The ones I have seen are interchangeable depending on which hand you bridge with!!!??

 

[jason]

I saw a guy playing with one of those...every shot was a "safe" shot

 

[Bluewolf]

Here is a funny story...

I was actually at an APA event in Vegas a few years ago doing some shows and I saw someone in the APA event wearing a home-made glove. It was one of those thick pick wool gloves that she cut out some fingers and made it into a pool glove.
Andy

I actually have a pair of those gloves. They are bought at a backpacking store. When worn with a light weight, thin capilene glove underneath, the combination is quite warm and less clumbsy when trying to do things requiring control such as using keys and driving than traditional gloves. I wear this combo all of the time unless I am playing in the snow, because the under layer of capilene is not water proof. Have no idea why anyone would use these on purpose in a pool match however, because they would be too warm.

Laura

 

[hustlefinger]

How can you wear those three finger gloves on the wrong hand. The ones I have seen are interchangeable depending on which hand you bridge with!!!??

The point is, that wearing a 3 finger glove on the wrong hand (grip) sends a signal. That being, he either doesn’t have a clue to what he is doing or he is trying to hustle someone.

I’ve seen players walk in with 5 piece cues before, trying to impress players. (All that screwing together, …too much for me.) I’ve also seen a player walk in with a cheap Budweiser cue with a predator shaft (sick bastard) on it. Hoping to relieve unsuspecting players from their $.

Rick

 

[9balldiva]

The point is, that wearing a 3 finger glove on the wrong hand (grip) sends a signal. That being, he either doesn’t have a clue to what he is doing or he is trying to hustle someone.

I’ve seen players walk in with 5 piece cues before, trying to impress players. (All that screwing together, …too much for me.) I’ve also seen a player walk in with a cheap Budweiser cue with a predator shaft (sick bastard) on it. Hoping to relieve unsuspecting players from their $.

Rick

Okay I see the purpose, I thought they were saying that wore it on the left hand when it was a right handed glove, and that's why I asked, because I know they can be worn on either!!!

I have seen some things like that as well. I've seen guys walk in with a picture of Carmen Electra on the butt, with a Predator shaft. Once there was a guy who had a sneaky peak (Predator), but it was all beat up and ugly. He put on the racks with the house cues until he found a game. You have to watch people, I noticed him do it, but I am not the type to screw someones game!

 

[hustlefinger]

Once there was a guy who had a sneaky peak (Predator), but it was all beat up and ugly. He put on the racks with the house cues until he found a game.

Lol

If I’d seen it. I’m the type of idiot that would walk over, pick it up out of the rack and start playing with it. Just to see what would happen.

Rick

 

[jjinfla]

This past weekend I saw Earl Strickland with what appeared to be finger extenders on his fingers. I had heard that he was using finger extenders. But these were home made. I think he made them out of band aid tape or surgical tape and they were on his four fingers. He claimed that in addition to giving his fingers extra height they also provide a good grip on the cloth and prevented his bridge hand from slipping. But by the end of the tournament they were looking a bit ragged.

Hustlefinger, what's wrong with putting a 314 on a cheap butt? Think about it, the most important part of a cue is the tip, then the shaft, and finally the butt. But the butt is the part that adds the most to the cost of the cue because that is where the art work comes into play. So if a person puts a 314 on a cheap (inexpensive) butt, and the weight and balance are good I see nothing wrong with that. And if he really wants to hide it sand off the numbers 314. You now have a $230 cue that looks like a run of the mill $29.95 Bud or Harley. And it will fool 90% of the players out there.

I have yet to find someone who knows I have a 314 on a Dufferin butt custom matched. People look at it and immediately say "sneaky pete"? I say no, "Dufferin". But what's the diff? And it puts them at ease and they don't think that I am trying to impress them, or fool them, with a custom cue.

But now with so many people winning Dale Perry cues around here in the APA the more expensive cues are being readily accepted. Everyone has two piece cues, And a sneaky pete has no meaning. A person either plays well or he doesn't and that is all that counts.

Jake

 

[Scott Lee]

You older Phoenix area players might remember Dollar Jack from back in the 70s. Dollar Jack played with a dollar bill wrapped around his shaft. Hell, he might have invented this thing.

Nope! This thing was invented 10 years ago, by a man in Chicago, by the name of Tom Walker. Since then, he has patented it, and sold a major order to J/S Sales (same company that manufactures and sells Cuetec cues). They carry it in their catalog. Whether you like the product or not, it DOES do what he says it does. How it "looks" is another story!

Scott Lee

 

[hustlefinger]

Jake,

If a player has enough knowledge about the game to select a predator shaft and play with it, I think it’s unlikely that same player would choose a cheap cue butt. BTW, I don’t consider a Dufferin cue cheap or low in quality. The Budweiser cue I’m picturing is of poor quality. I believe the whole thing was made out of pine, red string wrap, brass joint etc…

Nothing is wrong with putting a 314 shaft on any cue butt. Don’t you think it might be a little strange on a Budweiser cue though? The same would hold true if you turned your dufferin/314 shaft combo into a 5-piece cue. Or, I took a $4000 Richard Black cue butt and put a pine shaft on it. Perhaps nothing wrong but definitely strange, IMO.

I agree with you about the importance of the tip and shaft.

I believe the Sneaky Pete came about by taking a house cue off the wall sawing it in half and putting a joint in it. No doubt you already know this, but I find it interesting that the Sneaky Pete's of today have evolved into some very elaborate cues.

Rick

 

[9balldiva]

Lol

If I’d seen it. I’m the type of idiot that would walk over, pick it up out of the rack and start playing with it. Just to see what would happen.

Rick

That's good. I didn't even think to do that. He still comes around my pool hall, so if I see him do it again, I think I might do it...I'll let everyone know how it turns out!!

 

[1pocket]

Nope! This thing was invented 10 years ago, by a man in Chicago, by the name of Tom Walker. Since then, he has patented it, and sold a major order to J/S Sales (same company that manufactures and sells Cuetec cues). They carry it in their catalog. Whether you like the product or not, it DOES do what he says it does. How it "looks" is another story!

Scott Lee

A guy had one of those chinese-finger-torture-slidy-things at one of the local clubs I play at a few months ago. Indeed it sure did look ridiculous. He was passing it around like he seemed to want some company using it, so maybe he wouldn't be the only one I tried it for a couple of shots, and it was slippery -- must be some kind of teflon type fabric, or maybe the same as the gloves, but stiffer. To me (and everyone else who tried it) it was too awkward and distracting. I think the guy that brought it in abandoned it too -- unless he saves it for certain shots like bridging his cue directly on the rail, or directly on the pocket rubber, where it could offer some protection to his shaft, as well as some slide. I could never see using it for every shot, though.